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BOOK l, CHAPTER 1 THE INTRODUCTION
§ 1. SLAVERY IS SO VILE AND MISERABLE AN ESTATE OF MAN, AND SO DIRECTLY OPPOSITE TO THE GENEROUS TEMPER AND COURAGE OF OUR NATION; THAT 'TIS HARDLY TO BE CONCEIVED, THAT AN ENGLISHMAN, MUCH LESS A GENTLEMAN, SHOULD PLEAD FOR'T. AND TRULY, I SHOULD HAVE TAKEN SR. RT: FILMER'S PATRIARCHA AS ANY OTHER TREATISE, WHICH WOULD PERSWADE ALL MEN, THAT THEY ARE SLAVES, AND OUGHT TO BE SO, FOR SUCH ANOTHER EXERCISE OF WIT, AS WAS HIS WHO WRIT THE ENCOMIUM OF NERO, RATHER THAN FOR A SERIOUS DISCOURSE MEANT IN EARNEST, HAD NOT THE GRAVITY OF THE TITLE AND EPISTLE, THE PICTURE IN THE FRONT OF THE BOOK, AND THE APPLAUSE THAT FOLLOWED IT, REQUIRED ME TO BELIEVE, THAT THE AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER WERE BOTH IN EARNEST. I THEREFORE TOOK IT INTO MY HANDS WITH ALL THE EXPECTATION,AND READ IT THROUGH WITH-ALL THE ATTENTION DUE TO A TREATISE, THAT MADE SUCH A NOISE AT ITS COMING ABROAD, AND CANNOT BUT CONFESS MY SELF MIGHTILY SURPRISED, THAT IN BOOK, WHICH WAS TO PROVIDE CHAINS FOR ALL MAKIND, I SHOULD FIND NOTHING BUT A ROPE OF SAND, USEFUL PERHAPS TO SUCH, WHOSE SKILL AND BUSINESS IT IS TO RAISE A DUST, AND WOULD BLIND THE PEOPLE, THE BETTER TO MISLEAD THEM, BUT IN TRUTH NOT OF ANY FORCE TO DRAW THOSE INTO BONDAGE, WHO HAVE THEIR EYES OPEN, AND SO MUCH SENSE ABOUT THEM AS TO CONSIDER, THAT CHAINS ARE BUT AN ILL WEARING, HOW MUCH CARE SOEVER HATH BEEN TAKEN TO FILE AND POLISH THEM.

§ 2. IF AND ONE THINK I TAKE TOO MUCH LIBERTY IN SPEAKING SO FREELY OF A MAN, WHO IS THE GREAT CHAMPION OF ABSOLUTE POWER, AND THE IDOL OF THOSE WHO WORSHIP IT; I BESEECH HIM TO MAKE THIS SMALL ALLOWANCE FOR ONCE, TO ONE, WHO, EVEN AFTER THE READING OF SIR ROBERT'S BOOK, CANNOT BUT THINK HIMSELF, AS THE LAWS ALLOW HIM, A FREEMAN: AND I KNOW NO FAULT IT IS TO DO SO, UNLESS ANY ONE BETTER SKILL'D IN THE FATE OF IT, THAN I, SHOULD HAVE IT REVEALED TO HIM, THAT THIS TREATISE, WHICH HAS LAIN DORMANT SO LONG, WAS, WHEN IT APPEARED IN THE WORLD, TO CARRY BY STRENGTH OF ITS ARGUMENTS, ALL LIBERTY OUT OF IT, AND THAT FROM THENCEFORTH OUR AUTHOR'S SHORT MODEL WAS TO BE THE PATTERN IN THE MOUNT, AND THE PERFECT STANDARD OF POLITICS FOR THE FUTURE. HIS SYSTEM LIES IN A LITTLE COMPASS, 'TIS NO MORE BUT, THIS,
THAT ALL GOVERNMENT IS ABSOLUTE MONARCHY.
AND THE GROUND HE BUILDS ON, IS THIS,
THAT NO MAN IS BORN FREE.